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EXCERPT FROM ARISTOCRAT OF THE WEST
On February 8, 1919, on a farm five miles west of Stanton, North Dakota, hardly a stone's throw from the Knife River, a seven-year-old named Harold Schafer burned down his parents' house. Everybody present said the fire wasn't his fault, but years later Harold suspected that something in his character was the cause.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Larry Woiwode is North Dakota's best known contemporary writer. His highly regarded fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harpers, The New Yorker, and many other publications, and has been translated into a dozen languages. His first novel, What I'm Going to Do, I Think, received the William Faulkner Foundation Award. His next, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Book Critics Circle Award.
He is a Guggenheim Fellow and, in 1995, was the recipient of the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. This prestigious honor is presented once every six years, for distinction in the art of the short story. He is presently the poet laureate of North Dakota.